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(Show)"Antique City" Fun Fair
The Philip Rauch Fieldhouse is located on the Lehigh University campus near the athletic fields and facilities. It is outside the town of Bethlehem and convenient to major interstate highways. The university is roughly 80 miles outside of New York City and 70 miles outside of Philadelphia.
The crowd was still ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Antiques Show
Peter Eaton of Newbury, Massachusetts, asked $28,500 for this Federal clock from central or western Massachusetts, 1810-15. It is 96" tall and all original except the finials; it has an old surface. The seven-drawer cherrywood Connecticut River Valley tall chest with cove-molded top was $14,500.
Steven Still of Manheim, Pennsylvania, offered ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Book Fair's Shadow Show
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A first edition of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, offered for $3500 by Resser-Thorner Antiques, Manchester, New Hampshire, was not only signed by Toklas and by the book’s author, Gertrude Stein, it also had Man Ray photographs of the two women and their apartment at 27 rue ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
Doug Ramsay of Hadley, Massachusetts, asked $3600 for the 1930’s car weathervane; $1250 for the hooked rug; $2650 for the painted chest; and $650 for the iron duck on it. The druggist sign on top was $1750; the bellows, $350. The carving of a black man was $3800, and the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Antiques Week Events
There are plenty of events during the 2013 Antiques Week in Philadelphia to keep collectors and dealers busy.
Stenton Symposium
The Stenton Symposium, “Philadelphia & the Frontier: Urban & Vernacular Furniture in the Early Eighteenth Century,” will be held Thursday, April 11. The sold-out program was rescheduled after Hurricane Sandy caused its ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rare Books in the Big Apple
Jeremy Markowitz (left) and Tom McLaughlin of Donald A. Heald Rare Books, New York City. Their natural history offerings included a first elephant folio of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman, price on request.
The first book illustrated by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction House Owners Arrested for Offering Elephant Footstools
Mary Jo Garlo, 60, and Peter Francese, 70, owners of Great American Auction Service, Inc., Hyde Park, New York, failed to obtain a permit from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) before offering in an auction two stools made of elephant feet. On April 10, New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Francis Crick’s "Secret of Life" Letter Sets Record
Seated in the Christie’s salesroom (from right) are Francis Crick’s son, Michael, a video-game inventor (www.wordzap.com); Michael’s daughter Kindra Crick, an artist (www.kindracrick.com); two unidentified women; James D. Watson; and an unidentified man. While the bidding took place, Michael snapped photographs of the auctioneer, room bidders, and phone bid-takers. Afterward ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maureen O'Sullivan Stars in Devin Moisan Auction
Half-sheet poster, 22" x 28", for The Grapes of Wrath, $5175. Moisan photo.
Otto Henry Bacher oil on canvas of “Desdemona’s Palace” in Venice, Italy brought $6900.
The scrubbed-down top and carriage of this New England Queen Anne drop-leaf table appeared to have started life together. The maple table with rule-jointed leaves ... (Read More)
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